We do this. We were more or less forced into doing it, as one of our customers is a major UK financial institution, and they insisted that this was in their audit requirements. I'm not sure what regulations/requirements remit it falls under though.
So we do it twice a year, and run the whole shop, networks and all, in 'live' (that's 'production' to people like us), for a week. We run a SAN on the back-end storage, and a flavor of PPRC on the replication. We have the whole fail-over process down to about two hours now. The idea I think is to 'prove' that the DR process works - whatever you think of that. I think there are more elegant ways to prove something without actually manually working through it - mathematicians have been doing so for hundreds of years. I also think that, for something as crucial as DR, why put yourself through the risk that comes from doing these swaps? I mean, if someone was chasing you with a weapon, as a last resort, to escape them you might run across a busy freeway - and get away with it. If you did that regularly though, there's more and more chance you'll come a cropper.. Brian -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeffrey Deaver Sent: 14 July 2008 21:01 To: [email protected] Subject: European BCP Regulations? In a SHARE presentation I was at last year concerning data replication, someone mentioned that there were certain European countries with regulations that stated certain companies (financial?) had to test their BCP plans by actually failing over to their secondary data centers and running production there for awhile. Does anyone have any additional information on this? ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
